About
Broadway composer with Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart. He composed over 900 songs and 43 musicals, including "Oklahoma!," "The King and I," "The Sound of Music," and many other immortal classics.
Before Fame
He spent his formative summer years at Camp Wigwam, which proved to be a breeding ground for his considerable compositional talents. He served as musical director for Lew Fields and also accompanied Nora Bayes and Fred Allen.
Trivia
He also wrote "Dearest Enemy" from 1925, "The Girl Friend" from 1926, and "A Connecticut Yankee" from 1927 with Hart and "Carousel" from 1945, "South Pacific" from 1949, and "Cinderella" from 1957 with Hammerstein.
Family Life
He was born into the upper-class German Jewish family of Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a respected physician. He married Dorothy Rodgers in 1940, and they had two children together.
Associated With
He and Marvin Hamlisch both received Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy Awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. However, he was the first to attain an EGOT: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
